There's a synergistic overlap here between Cronenberg's own particular brand of weirdness and Burroughs's; they're both twisted in ways that complement each other nicely.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Janet Maslin
For the most part this is a coolly riveting film and even a darkly entertaining one, at least for audiences with steel nerves, a predisposition toward Mr. Burroughs and a willingness to meet Mr. Cronenberg halfway.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Naked Lunch is so well-acted and so amusingly warped that it's a shoo-in to become a cult movie. [30 Dec 1991]Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
While I admired it in an abstract way, I felt repelled by the material on a visceral level.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
The movie is way too colorful - cute, in a repulsive way, with its crawly special effects - and tame compared with its source.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Cronenberg hasn't so much filmed Naked Lunch as tamed it, turned it into entertainment, with oozy rubber bugs, big and little, that look left over from David Lynch's movie of "Dune," or the intergalactic dive from "Star Wars." [10 Jan 1992]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Peter Rainer
It's a movie for people who really dig Cronenberg's mulchy fixations-and probably for no one else. [27 Dec 1991]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Howe
It feels studiously surrealistic, an excuse for cinematic buggery; deep in its center there's a lack of conviction.Read Full Review »
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